Our book recommendation for the letter M for YA is... Mortal Engines
The earth has ceased to exist as we know it, towns and small communities now live on what they call traction cities. These cities are amazing feats of engineering with towns built on top of powerful tracks that carry them along the earth. Large traction cities pray on smaller traction cities to 'collect' (steal) their resources.
Our main protagonist, hooded in a black scarf is foiled in her attempts to assassinate Thaddeus Valentine, head historian and famous archaeologist. She is forced to flee the city but with all available routes blocked by guards her only choice is to flee to the Out Country- the muddy remains of earth that is now nothing but traction tracks, but she is not alone. Tom the young middle class boy that foiled her attempted assassination has also ended up there, and wants to know why shes so determined to kill a man like Thaddeus, but she has her reasons, good reasons.
But little does she know there is so much more happening in the seedy underbelly of this new world and everyone plays a much bigger part in it then they could ever realize.
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